I have a personal rule about cycling to work in the winter: only if it’s warmer than 35F. Got up this morning and…

Mike Jurney Mike Jurney October 28, 2011 1 Minute

I have a personal rule about cycling to work in the winter: only if it’s warmer than 35F. Got up this morning and checked the temperature… 36F.

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Published by Mike Jurney

Published October 28, 2011

Quillian Rutherford says:

October 28, 2011 at 5:20 pm

As long as there isn’t ice on the road, why stop at 35?

Sure, I drove in today myself, but I had a dental appointment. Also, rain gear is for wimps, denim dries out eventually.

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Mike Jurney says:

October 28, 2011 at 5:23 pm

Based on my experiences last winter, 35 is a pretty good approximation of the point at which my equipment stops being adequate to keep my extremities from freezing. I don’t want to go down the path of buying Extreme Low Temperature stuff, so I just cut it at 35F and accept that sometimes it’s just too cold to ride a bike over the east river.

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Brett Dietsch says:

October 29, 2011 at 1:08 pm

The difference between “extreme” cold stuff and regular cold weather stuff seems to stop working around there, and I’ll be damned if I wear lobster-gloves to work. Or ever.

Get a good liner. Keeping the wind off of you helps immeasurably. Full finger gloves and good wool socks help a ton, too. Other than that, go faster.

All of that (for me) falls apart around 20-25, at which point you can choose to either look like a lobsterman eskimo hybrid with fogged over glasses and frozen facial hair, or you can ride the bus.

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